Zuma’s nephew to submit ‘huge’ land claim

SAPA – DURBAN – The nephew of President Jacob Zuma has launched a land claim targeting more than 60 farms in Impendle in the...

ANC: Clean up for Mandela

BY SAPA – Government encourages all South Africans to work together and dedicate 67 minutes of their time to clean up South Africa on...

Khaya Dlanga: Qualifications are not the be-all and end-all to employment

Qualifications are not the be-all and end-all to employment, In South Africa, the graduation rate among South Africa’s 23 public universities is 15%. These...

Mamelodi protesters block road

By SAPA –  Johannesburg – Around 500 residents of Stoffelpark informal settlement in Mamelodi, Pretoria sat in the middle of a road in an...

Wage gap must be narrowed ‘urgently’

BY LINDA ENSOR –  Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said on Tuesday, that there was an urgent need to tackle the wage gap between top...

Need for ‘separate oil and gas law’

BY CAROL PATON AND PAUL VECCHIATTO –  The separation of the oil and gas sector into a different piece of legislation could be part...

Welfare grants help children walk taller

BY CAROL PATON –  CHILDREN in households that receive a government child support grant grow taller, are less likely to repeat a grade at...

Matter of time before Malema discovers Piketty

by Jonny Steinberg –  IT IS a matter of time before the work of French economist Thomas Piketty begins to influence debates about wealth...

Equatorial Guinea: One man’s fight for rights in Africa’s most repressive dictatorship

By Simon Allison –  Equatorial Guinea has one of the worst human rights records on the continent, all overseen by Africa’s longest serving dictator....

A few good whites: Will civil society take Dr Ramphele back?

By Sisonke Msimang –  Ramphele’s assumption that she will be accepted into civil society, where she can continue her project of ‘active citizenship’ without...

There’s more to getting maid in SA

By Victoria John –  Last week a group of Mail & Guardian readers rallied around to rage at a column published by Haji Mohamed Dawjee....

Economic freedom for refugees: The Ugandan model

When a team from Oxford University’s Humanitarian Innovation Project set out to explore what work refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda had managed to...